SCADA v7.30 What’s New?

Sally Garner
Product Offer Manager – SCADA

September 2012
At a Glance
● Major launch ● Beta Program registration now
● Brands closed
● Vijeo Citect http://www.citect.schneider-
● CitectSCADA electric.com/index.php?option=co
m_content&view=article&id=1127
&Itemid=1788

● SELL Dates
● Not available in Beta program
● Web – Nov 2012
● Localisation support (English only)
● Sydney shipment – Nov 2012
● Software Updates
● New license protection modes

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Value Proposition

● As the release of V7.30 approaches, this new version of SCADA will

provide new features focused around some core objectives:

● Equipment Hierarchy
● Bringing the process into your process control system and enabling
engineers and operators to work more effectively
● Alarm Management
● Focuses on faster navigation of the alarm system, resulting in rapid
resolution of issues
● Open Interfaces
● Confirms the focus on OPEN standards held by Schneider Electric, through
the implementation of standard interfaces for process control and data base
systems

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Equipment

Equipment Hierarchy
● The Equipment Hierarchy represents any plant
system
● Links configuration associated with a single
piece of equipment together
● Locates equipment within the process plant
● Stores equipment properties (location, controller)
linked to equipment.
● Reflected in the tools
● The scheduler schedules the state of the control
system and manages demand response via the
equipment hierarchy
● The alarm system is classified and filtered
fastest using the equipment tree
● The OPC interface of the SCADA can be viewed
as a list of tags or based on the equipment tree
● The equipment tree is linked to the historian for
reporting
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Equipment and Hierarchy
● ‘dot’ notation in equipment
defines hierarchy for equipment.
● Equipment and Tag Item
configurable for all tag types
(Alarm, Trend, (variable) tags,
Accumulators)
● Enables unique flat tag based or
hierarchical equipment based site
naming conventions
● TagBrowse for (variable) tags
enabling searching of tags based
on equipment
● Tag Prefixes allow for easier use
in genies using Metadata
=> Aid in migration from flat Tag to
Objects
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Equipment Overview

• Equipment Libraries
• Tags, trends, alarms, states

• Equipment Types
• Define equipment templates

• Equipment
• Instance(s) of equipment types.
• Parameters can define alarms,
state names, etc.

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Equipment Deployment

• Once Equipment Libraries, Equipment Types and Equipment are defined,

running ‘Update Equipment’ (Project Editor -> Tools menu) will generate
a standard sets of tags, alarms and trends for the defined equipment.
• All records will reflect
Tag Prefix naming
convention and adopt
any pre-defined
parameters

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Equipment Libraries
●Enable access to all project database
● Tags, Alarms, Trends,
Parameters, Labels …..
●Linked Configuration
● Editable data can be defined
● Removal of the equipment
removes all linked configuration
●Libraries are provided or
user-generated
● Libraries are created as packs
● Add definitions within the libraries can be changed
●Parameters
● All library data can be customised with parameters
● Design Guide available now on Support Website
● Menu: Tools & Documents > Design Guides > Equipment
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Equipment States
• States can be defined for various
actions, e.g. the set-point of a light,
a recipe, a production mode,
speed of production.
• Regular States are used to
schedule equipment in the
calendar.

• Demand/Response (DR) states

define runtime override actions,
e.g. reduce light set-point, change
recipe, slow down production

• Delay is used to stagger the start-

up or change of a device/process
to prevent energy spikes

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 Time Scheduler
Hierarchy defined from equipment Special days and
name. Children inherit, parents Public Holidays can
state be defined.

Scheduled mode can

be Overridden, and
state changed

Schedules can be one

off, or recurring.
Recurrences are fully
customisable.
Schedules can either
include or exclude any
public holidays/special
days.

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New Library Controls Genies
● Tree
● Link to menus for vertical menu
navigation
● Link to equipment for filtering views

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New Library Controls Genies
● Grid /Data Browse

● Scroll bars (Vertical & Horizontal)

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Active Alarm view
● New template using
new controls &
features
● Equipment tree
● Grid view
● Scroll bars
● Action Menu tab
● Movable split
● Counts

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Sequence of Events View
● All alarm status changes
● Static view
● New template including
tree, grid and scroll bars
● Action menu tab
● Set format via
[Alarm]DefSOEFmt or in
alarm categories

● New fields
● Classification for different
event types
● Time record stored to
database
● Configuration events

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Alarm Database Management

●Enhanced Storage ●Redundancy improvements

● Replacement of the memory
table and file with a database
● Remove limits (64K)
● Longer historical alarm storage
& archiving
● Re-Connection sync of active
alarm status and historical
(SOE) records

●Richer Data ●Open Interfaces

● Alarm Storage Time ● OPC A&E interface
● Machine & Operator Name ● Database (OLE-DB) interface
for Acknowledgement
● Source of Alarm

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Alarms: Simple Filtering & Sorting

●Equipment Focused
● Filtering focused on plant hierarchy
● Support for multi-select
● Automatic selection of children
●Filters
● Support for custom fields 1..8
● Ability to create named filters reusable
across multiple pages
● New filter form
● Named filters
●Sorting
● Available on any field

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Counts for Animation
● Alarm Banner now includes Alarm counts
● # disabled, # unacknowledged
● Alarm Counts
● Counts the available alarms for the supplied filter criteria
●Equipment, Unacknowledged or Active alarms, priority
● Enables animation of graphics pages or navigation

LONG AlarmCount(INT Type [,STRING FilterCriteria [, LONG

KeepAliveSeconds [, INT CachedMode]]])
LONG AlarmCountList(INT AN)

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Operator comments
● Ability to add operator comments to
● SOE view
● Alarm summary view
● Length 263chars
● Multiple comments can be added to
the same record

INT AlarmComment(STRING Comment

[, INT AN])

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SOE Event Injection
● Add Events associated with Alarm Tags
● Change in Setpoint
● Add User events
● Alarm audit events

SHORT SOEEventAdd(TIMESTAMP TimeStamp,STRING Message[, STRING

Tag, STRING Cluster])

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Example Project : Loops Page

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Tag Browsing
● Functionality
● Enables access to the “online” tag list
● Query the list to find tags with specific properties
● Included 8 customer filter fields on tags to assist browse filtering
● Access to runtime values
●Override, Control Inhibit, Quality, TimeStamp

● Applications
● What tags exist for a specific
device/equipment
● Log all run hours to a database
● Find inhibited or overridden tags

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Open Interfaces - OPC Data Access v3
Linking with other applications

●Configuration:
● New server in project
● Choice of flat or equipment based browsing
hierarchy
● Ability to enable browsing of rich tag data

●Runtime:
● Managed by Runtime Manager
● Licensed as previous (CTAPI license)
● Auto-start on client connect

●OPC Foundation certification

● http://www.opcfoundation.org/Products/CompanyDetails.aspx?CM=1&RI=642&CU=52

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Open Interfaces

Database Access

● Support for different connection types (ODBC, OLE-DB, SQL)

● Create/Open – Disconnected
● Connect – Connected
● Call – Non record set connections
● GetScalar – return a single value
● Transaction Management
● Queries
● Multiple pre defined queries per connection
● Support for parameters
● SQL Device
● Support within the devices configuration to enable this functionality for
existing users
● Non-Blocking
● Support failure of network without affecting the calling process
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Performance & Security

● Minimum hardware specification memory (RAM) now 2Gb

● Alarm server and client memory usage has increased

approximately 2x vs. V7.20/V6.10

● Alarm Data throughput, display times and avalanche

scenario update times are better than V7.20/V6.10

● All Testing is carried out on PCs and VMs with

● Operating System with the latest service pack and updates
installed
● An antivirus program (e.g. Symantec) installed
● Software security assessment by external consultants

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Software Update
● Software Updates notifications and downloads
● SCADA software service pack downloads
● Driver release downloads
● Security notifications

● Improved menu options to assist with Project folder navigation

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PC Resources Utilization – CPU Affinity
● Assign processes to more than 1
CPU and allow operating system to
manage
● Optimal operation of the Citect.exe
process across the number of
available logical processors
● Allow the citect process to process
requests whilst performing
background operations such as
cache persistence
● Provide a lot smoother operation and
consistently fast display of graphics
pages, even during heavy CPU loads

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PC Resources Utilization – Large
Address Aware

● To make more memory available to the Citect runtime processes on

64bit OS
● Set the IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE flag when
compiling/linking Citect32.exe

● Limit for 64 bit Windows Operating Systems (e.g. Windows 7-64 bit)
● 2 GB with IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE cleared (default)
● 4 GB with IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE set

● The IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE flag will have no

impact for the Citect runtime when running on 32 bit OS (e.g. Win NT)

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Supportability – Diagnostics
● Rationalisation of diagnostic information
● All messages for a single IOServer process will be output into a single
syslog file named according to the process. This will include Drivers and
IOServer traces. (previously there was 1 file for the IOServer and 1 file for
the Drivers)
● Additional diagnostic information
● log of Runtime Manager Events should be included in the crash dump
archive of Citect Runtime Instance
● A server cicode function ServerDumpKernel() and runtime manager menu
option for dumping kernel data on a server process
● Additional Licensing logging at startup
● In CSAToPSI.Subs kernel table, a new field “ValueChanges” will be added
to display the number of changes per tag
● New Kernel Table for Broadcast Monitoring
● New Kernel Table and Windows Monitor for platform Performance Counters
(PSI, Tasks, Transport)

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Supportability - Diagnostics
● Consistency of logging information
● Consistent date/time format
● all logging to be single line per message
● Ensure no traces are written out of sequence
● Each entry contains a date/time stamp
● Sent/Received notations
●“=>” indicates that the log entry is tracing a message that the client has sent to clusters
●“<=” indicates that the log entry is trace a message that the client has received from an IO
Server
● Format improved by using equal notation “=” to link property names and
values
●Old format: “updating remote tag status (tag, old, new) _Int1 Initialising ResolvedOnline”
● New format: “updating remote tag status: Tag=_Int1, Old=Initializing, New=ResolvedOnline
● Each field will have a minimum fixed width so that the traces can easily be
viewed in a text editor.
● The fields will remain tab-separated so that the traces can be loaded into an
application such as Excel and filtering can be performed on these fields.

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Misc (from Ideas@SCADA)

● Localisation in include projects/multiple dbfs

combined
● A new database named LANG.DBF is added to
a SCADA project. This database specifies which
local language databases exist in the current
project and ANSITOOEM setting for each
language database
● Upgrade tool/Migration supported
● Comment field size for Alarm, Trend,
Reports... Increased 256chars
● Support unique tag syntax with clusters
● will allow an existing CitectSCADA customer to
upgrade without having to re-engineer large
portions of their pages, Cicode and Genies to
take advantage of clustering.

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 OFSOPC Driver
Master the Time
[ SOE ] Measuring sequence of events and
time-stamped data at the source

Servers Native
NTP synchronization
Measure with the right resolution
Sort whatever the source
E
R
Energy Event
1ms
Guarantee no loss of information
T resolution

STOP Display in a comprehensive way

10ms
Resolution for IOs

Time-stamping at the source allows for better understanding

about what’s happened and improves the maintainability
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Historian Integration
●One Process, One Hierarchy, One Time

● Engineer the tag, alarm or

trend and include the historize
to automatically historize
and publish the data

● Reflect the equipment

hierarchy of SCADA in the
historian

●Reduction in not only engineering effort, but transcription errors

and troubleshooting time, as only ‘one source’ of data.

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One Brand - Functionality alignment

● Removed technical differences between CitectSCADA and Vijeo Citect

● Mitsubishi drivers
● TagGen/Speedlink and Fastlinks
● WebGate
● Custom1..8 on (variable) tags
● OFS driver

● IDC moved to extras folder

● Offline Knowledge Base available to all registered users

http://www.citect.schneider-electric.com

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Technology – License Protection model
● Flexera Software license (locked to PC hardware attributes)
● Fully virtualised system NOT possible
● Virtualised SCADA PC, but non-virtualised license PC is possible
●License Activation Methods
– www/internet
– Download and transfer to another PC with www access
– Download and transfer via email
● Sentinel Dongle (license locked to USB) remains as dongle option

● Multiple protection models not possible on same PC and not

recommended on same SCADA site/project
● No plans to release service packs for older versions (SCADA V7.20 or
earlier) to use new license protection models (i.e. softkeys)
● 3rd party drivers that directly accessed sentinel dongle will need to
convert to new protection model
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Offer

Industrialization
● Single license for both CitectSCADA and Vijeo Citect brands
● New Licenses will be brand independent
● VJC or CT software will license from either license brand
● Unified client licensing (no longer Web vs Fixed)
● Unlimited Client view from servers (500+pt full license)
● To allow for ease of scalability of system
● Different client & server point counts on the same PC
● Softkeys are freed from existing sentinel solution capacity constraint
● Allows for additional clustering scenarios

● All license and services (support) part numbers will change

● brand agnostic (i.e. Same license part number for both VJC and CT brands)
● Go-live for part number changes Q1 2013
● Some physical items packaging changes
● USB separated from DVD pack
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 Questions

Operation & Optimization Software Activity

Sally Garner, SCADA Product Offer Manager

Rebecca Harris, Offer Marketing Manager
Eugenia Ngau, Launch Manager